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Identification of candidates to receive life change surgeries by Mercy Ships doctors is always a challenge. Very often the medical staff says that it is the most difficult task of the whole field service. For this reason the mass medical screening day, designed to identify those who will receive surgery at the Africa Mercy, the world’s largest non-governmental hospital ship, is so important. On Monday September 3 rd , while the Africa Mercy waited at the docks the surgical screening took place at The Palais du Peuple, “the People’s Palace”, in Conakry, Guinea. The three-story public building was renovated in 2008 for the celebration of Guinea’s 50 th Anniversary of independence. The medical team screened more than 3,450 patients, many of them stayed all night on the line for the chance to receive a surgery. The big turnout only confirms the medical needs of Guinea a country that has 1.3 medical workers for every 10,000 people, the lowest ratio in West Africa. Even though t...

We all have encountered them or even being one of them, whether at home, work or in any other activity just waiting to express a negative aspect of a situation or of life in general. Some call them complainers and to others they are joy suckers as they have the ability to suck every ounce of joy of your day with their negative remarks. In an article at the INC. magazine entitled “Listening to Negative People Will Make You Dumb”, Minda Zatlin  http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/listening-to-complainers-is-bad-for-your-brain.html a business technology writer calls them pure and simply negative people. She point out that “ exposure to nonstop negativity impairs brain function. ” Research in neuroscience reveals that exposure to excessive complaint or negativity in effect rind away neuron’s hippocampus area of the brain where problem solving occur. In the book of Matthew, Jesus warns about negativity and complaint, “Do not judge, or you too will be judge.” Matthew 7:1, NIV. James a...